David French: Three irreconcilable majorities

David French writing at Patheos: “Here’s a prediction: The new congress will land in Washington and discover the same reality that faced their ‘revolutionary’ predecessors, pass budgets that don’t differ dramatically from the budgets that came before, and pray fervently that the mighty American economy pulls their chestnuts out of the fire . . . A majority of Americans do not want to see their own government benefits cut, limited, or eliminated, and since a majority of Americans receive one or more tangible government benefits, the entitlement majority may be the most enduring majority in American politics.”